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The CNN journalist in question is Tamara Qiblawi, a Georgetown-educated Lebanon native who has worked for CNN since 2015. By Zvika Klein Published: April 16, 2023 [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc20f51ca525b73bdd50e3a/e04660f4-806f-4bb9-9012-83fc7e080214/CNN_Journalist_Deletes_Anti_Israel_Posts?format=750w] ... HR cited a Facebook entry dated May 15, 2015, in which Qiblawi described the events surrounding Israel’s founding with the Palestinian term nakba, “catastrophe” in Arabic, a term Palestinians use to describe their experience in the 1948 War of Independence, while denouncing the creation of Israel a safe haven for Jews, “mak[ing] way for an ethnoreligious exclusive state.” Lebanon faced a “ruthless, genocidal onslaught of an Israeli invasion,” she wrote. She also...

A huge blaze broke out in Beirut's port on Thursday, just weeks after a massive blast at the same site laid waste to the capital city, killing nearly 200 people. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear, but the Lebanese army said in a statement that it began at a warehouse where oil and tires are kept in the port's duty-free market. Videos taken at the scene showed a warehouse engulfed in flames and a large plume of black smoke rising into the sky. Many Beirut residents sharing clips on social media expressed their dismay that yet another...